Hans

Has anyone made a wiki of single characters? One per Tiddler.

It would be an interesting experiment.

Let's do it.

TT

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:41:11 UTC+2, HansWobbe wrote:
>
> I think the ultimate answer to *"When does a part stop being a fragment?" 
> *may  be "when the fragment is Indivisible.".
>
> Of course, that depends on the tools at one's disposal.  I recall Physics 
> teachers explaining that Electrons,Neutrons and Protons were called 
> "sub-atomic" part-icles because the prior generation though that the Atom 
> was the smallest, indivisible object.  And as an engineer, I was taught 
> that the difference between analog signals (messy Fourrier wholes)  and  
> digiat signals was that, in the digital realm, there were only 0 and 1.
>
> Now, with Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing, I am only *probably *sure 
> I can say "I think, therefore I am.".
>
> In the scope and context of TiddlyWiki, I have come to appreciate that *a 
> Character is the smallest practical Part* (glibly over-looking that there 
> are 4 bits to a Nibble and 2 Nibbles to a Byte and as many as possible 2^31 
> characters in the UniCode character set).  
>
> For me, that makes a unicode character the smallest possible fragment.  I 
> am also relatively certain that, since a Character is Indivisible, it can 
> only be divided by 1 or itself ... which is really neat since it means 
> Characters are like Prime numbers!
>
>
>

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